The Nature Of Neologism In The English Language

I. Introduction
Language is a social phenomenon. It changes with the social and culture development. And among all components in language system, vocabulary is sensitive to the changes of society. From 1970s, the world politics, economy, science, technology and education have changed enormously. Under the circumstances, a large number of neologisms have appeared in English. As a very important language and social phenomenon, new words develops and changes constantly with the development of the society, in turn, it promotes the development of society and reflect the development and changes of the society. So we should gain a better understanding about language and more about neologisms.
Vocabulary is most active and most sensitive elements of

In Chinese, neologism refers to those words which have not been taken in by modern Chinese dictionary.
To define the nature of neologisms, French lexicographer and terminologist A1aill Rey says: “Neologism, a unit of the Lexicon, a word or a phrase, which meaning or which signifier-signified relationship, presupposes an effective function in a specific model of communication”.
From neologism advancing in the new era, one can observe the present situation in the field of politics, economy, education, technology, and environment and so on. Thus one can witness how it is resulted in extensive change in people’s idea and value concepts.
English is widely used languages in the world. The development of neologism can reflect the development of society. We should understand that know about the latest development of language is known about the latest development of society. And we can familiar with development of language if we can grasp the characters of neologism.
II Reasons for creation of

In 2001, the United States "9.11" incident brought the new words terrorism, Chechen, Taliban, and United Nations Protection Force to English. With the development of globalization, the world economy is becoming more and more integrated, and many new economic organizations and treaties emerge as the times require. This circumstance added such new words as EU (European Union), WTO (World Trade Organization), EEC (European Economic Community), Electronic Fund Transfer, ATM (Automatic Teller Machine), cyber-economy, cyber-commerce.
2.2 Science and Technology
The field of science and technology is a major of neologisms in the modern society. Numerous neologism related to internet has been related. Such as cyber-commence, cybercrime and so on. About computers such as import, export, download, virus, hacker and so on. There are other new words about biology and medical science such as buzzwords clone (cloning), genetic engineering(genetic project), etc. People talk about the AIDS, SARS (typical pneumonia), and Mad Cow Disease (BSE). And there are other words such as deep space, black hole, command module, moonwalk and so on.
2.3 Lifestyle and